PR is definitely a positive, my only concern are the changes to the wielded crushers.
Both crushers were nerfed which is good considering the overall nerf to salvage mob health but I think the ways they went about it are going to make the crushers no longer a desirable option for salvagers for a few reasons.
Firstly in the github I posted my caluclations about the expected damage you would take fighting a goliath in melee using both crusher leeches. Iām screenshotting those calculations and my suggestions here for clarity:
Glaive TTK has been raised and the nerfed Axe healing rate makes it so that fighting a goliath with an axe is effectively pointless (the damage you will take assuming perfect play is too much to justify going into melee range basically ever) and the glaiveās leech damage of 24 puts it literally 1 below of behaving how it did before which is an odd choice.
In addition, there is also the nerfed attack swing speed, one thing that was very nice about the crushers was that they were a useful tool in addition to being a useful melee weapon, one swing with them and you could break an asteroid rock like a pickaxe but twice as fast allowing you to break 3 rocks every two seconds. This was a bit slower than the drill which let you break 2 rocks every second, and way slower than the diamond drill of 4 every second, but was still a nice upgrade.
Nerfing the attack speed on the crushers makes them not really good for mining anymore, I think Iād rather find a drill then a crusher and a drill can be printed by sci very easily.
Lastly, this one is an oddity: They nerfed the structural damage on the glaive specifically.
The glaive was nerfed to do 20 structural? while the axe still does 30, meaning a glaive takes two swings to break an asteroid rock which is a really weird change to make and an extra weird change to not note in the changelog thatās a pretty massive nerf to the usability of the glaive.
Lastly, this PR doesnāt nerf PTK upgrades which gives a lot more value to using your PTK over a crusher ever. A damage PTK upgrade will make your PTK better than a crusher in basically every combat scenario since the only thing better than taking some damage is taking no damage.
Overall the PR is good but the changes to the crushers really irk me and continue to irk me, I think changes to the crushers should be requested and otherwise the PR is fine.